Monday, September 19, 2005

Please join the Michigan Yoga Center in Northville as we come to our mats and practice 108 Sun Salutations to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

There are two ways to participate:

Come to the studio and share in the energy of our community as we dedicate our practice of 108 Sun Salutations to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and those working in the relief effort. Admission is by donation (a suggested minimum of $15). Instruction in the Sun Salutations will be provided by MYC teachers and special guests. Please note that finishing all 108 Sun Salutations is NOT important, but your participation is!

You can also support our efforts by sponsoring one of our participants and their practice of the 108 Sun Salutations. Pledge your support by visiting the Michigan Yoga Center and making a donation. In addition to this our participants are encouraged to seek out sponsors and actively collect donations. Collection forms are available at the Michigan Yoga Center. Checks can be made out to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund or the Humane Society of the United States’ Disaster Relief Fund.

Why 108 Sun Salutations?

It has been said that the nine movement of Sun Salutation A together comprise the entirety of yoga practice. Due to this the practice of the Sun Salutations can be viewed as a complete practice in and of themselves. This complete practice and the physical and mental focus contained within lends to the spirit of this benefit. We will aspire to practice 108 Sun Salutations as the number 108 is spiritually significant in numerous traditions throughout the world.

All proceeds from this event will go to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund and the Humane Society of the United States’ Disaster Relief Fund.

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Gregg Newsom is a Yoga Teacher, Bodyworker, and Reiki Master who escaped Corporate America in 2006 to share his talents with others, raise awareness and take action on the issues of Food Security, Health, and Social and Environmental Justice. Informed & inspired by Permaculture, the Transition Movement & Eastern, Western, & Indigenous explorations of Consciousness, Gregg is in active pursuit of resilient and relocalized neighborhoods where diverse, sustainable and soulful communities will thrive.

In 2007, Gregg and his wife Angela co-created Detroit Evolution and are pleased to offer community-based yoga classes, bodywork, vegan and raw food preparation classes, catering, and community building events in and around Detroit.

“Maybe that’s the ultimate take-away from Detroit Evolution: seeing food not as a commodity but as a relationship with the earth, as an individual and a community, one not to be approached without a conscience.” ~Michael Jackman, Metrotimes